Looks like the ability to reply to a comment adds a little bit to the formula. Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience + Reply = Humiliated fuckwad. Peer pressure has its place. May every fuckwad be hoisted by their own petard.
I'd say the guitar from Guitar Hero is as close as a guitar could be while keeping what made Amplitude and Frequency (older Harmonix games) so much fun to play. And your guess is right, its lack of realism does make it better. I honestly don't think they could have done a better job of marrying the control with the interface they had polished in their old games. And It proved flexible enough to allow a bass guitar mode with no new hardware and the drums with only a peripheral add on. It is pretty amazing how little they changed from Amplitude and Frequency to get the success they have now. Sony was a fool for not buying them outright when they had the chance.
It has Google search built in. And yahoo. and YouTube. Think of it more like Tivo, it's not the fastest, best video player in the world, just the best way to manage that video.
I agree, an algorithm would be a superior tool to determine these things. However whenever money is involved, over enough time people find ways to corrupt the original intent to suit their needs. Even if the founders had specified the best way of determining copyright length, over the last 200 years copyright holders (having the most to gain and therefor putting in the most effort) would have found loopholes one way or another.
Just like code you can start with a clear philosophy but if you let enough time pass the original logic just gets lost (see Microsoft for details). Sometimes you just have to start from scratch not because the old philosophy was wrong, but just because too many little changes have been made to it for it to resemble anything but a patchwork of solutions.
That is copyright in the world today, a couple hundred years of little patches that have totally overtaken the original intent of copyright. Time to call the current system the old system and get to work on the new system.
It is content that drives sales, not cracked DRM. But DRM hurts sales. And I don't want a reply about how God gave copyright holders the power to control their media. People are more lazy than cheap; if the DRM were easy enough to crack, it would improve sales. Even the quality of the content is second to people's laziness (for more information check YouTube).
What was the methodology? Liberals may vote as a bloc more often but just how are we deciding which justices are liberal and conservative? If there were just one justice who was considered conservative but often agreed with the liberal block, it would make it look like the conservatives are more divided, and liberals more resolute, when it is just that the swing vote is considered to be part of the conservative bloc. With 9 people it is hard to form a block, each vote is just too valuable (a 5-4 is very different from a 6-3).
If you are one of these 5.000 people with access to this service write a review and post. Nothing kills FUD more than an article showing that a service works exactly as advertised, with no magic or booby traps.
I have heard that the Egyptians did not like to write down bad news. I got this from the discovery channel, so it's only about as reliable as the Bible as info.
I agree, that is why I have a Wii and a PC. When I want to game, and not waste my life tuning settings, I play Wii. When I want the best graphics possible I use my PC. The Xbox and the PS3 both feel like PC's I'm not allowed to tune to my liking, and for that I would only buy them if they had some GREAT games for them, which eventually they will, but as you said, nothing is grabbing me now so I play Resident Evil 4 on the Wii and am more pleased with it than everything but God of War II.
If you can still legally access the content, is it censorship? It is not like every media outlet must run every piece of media available for it. If my local theater doesn't want to show something, oh well, if I can still access the media through another theater or on the web or on dvd etc, I can live with it.
I agree with you sentiment, but the console business model is built around the idea that they create the platform and nurture it, in exchange they get a cut of every game sold on it. I wish consoles were like DVD players and all you had to do was license the format and you can do whatever you want, but as is, Nintendo won't publish AO games and the ESRB decides what games are AO. There is no legal argument that either Nintendo or the ESRB need to do anything different. Oh well, it will still work for the PC, and I can use the Wiimote there too.
Funny how we keep using the word crazy in this argument, but how would we define it? Is crazy to mean that these are the people so close to the edge that a game tips them over? In which case how are we supposed to protect them? Especially considering that people that are just as close to the edge and it won't tip them over look pretty much the same. If by crazy we mean random then it doesn't matter what movies we put out, they just pick whatever suits their taste.
Just one final note: censorship is not protection.
Statistically some of you will turn any situation into a gold mine and some of you will end up with shit no matter how you play it. My point was that for the second group, it's not a good plan to say "you should have done better".
How about we just float this idea: Video games are fake, and what you do inside of one is similar to what you do inside your head, no body's business but your own. Other people are real and you ARE responsible to what you do there. Is it really so hard to explain to people that most gamers don't even think about the violence in a game after a few hours. Once you understand the game mechanics all games are like solitaire: just because you see kings and queens in front of you, doesn't mean you are plotting regicide.
If I can do it, you have no excuses. I'm sorry but I just have jump on this. I'm sure you meant "If I can do it, then most of you have no excuses." And by you, I hope you mean Slashdot users. But to make my point, what if you were dyslexic? or spent most of you childhood trying to survive instead of going to high school? What if you were just like you but living in New Orleans a couple of years ago? Shit happens, and although you can't use the government to fix bad luck, (or even stupid people, I mean 5$ for coffee...) you still need the government to try to help some of these people, because people with no where else to turn always cost more in the long run (see Nazis or Muslim extremists or Christian Fundamentalists [not the ones on TV but the ones who PAY the ones on TV])
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Awesome analogy, well done.
They payed for GTA to be released on the PS2 first and exclusive (for a while). Other than that I don't know.
Looks like the ability to reply to a comment adds a little bit to the formula. Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience + Reply = Humiliated fuckwad. Peer pressure has its place. May every fuckwad be hoisted by their own petard.
I'd say the guitar from Guitar Hero is as close as a guitar could be while keeping what made Amplitude and Frequency (older Harmonix games) so much fun to play. And your guess is right, its lack of realism does make it better. I honestly don't think they could have done a better job of marrying the control with the interface they had polished in their old games. And It proved flexible enough to allow a bass guitar mode with no new hardware and the drums with only a peripheral add on. It is pretty amazing how little they changed from Amplitude and Frequency to get the success they have now. Sony was a fool for not buying them outright when they had the chance.
It has Google search built in. And yahoo. and YouTube. Think of it more like Tivo, it's not the fastest, best video player in the world, just the best way to manage that video.
When was Nintendo ever hardcore? What games are hardcore?
I agree, an algorithm would be a superior tool to determine these things. However whenever money is involved, over enough time people find ways to corrupt the original intent to suit their needs. Even if the founders had specified the best way of determining copyright length, over the last 200 years copyright holders (having the most to gain and therefor putting in the most effort) would have found loopholes one way or another. Just like code you can start with a clear philosophy but if you let enough time pass the original logic just gets lost (see Microsoft for details). Sometimes you just have to start from scratch not because the old philosophy was wrong, but just because too many little changes have been made to it for it to resemble anything but a patchwork of solutions. That is copyright in the world today, a couple hundred years of little patches that have totally overtaken the original intent of copyright. Time to call the current system the old system and get to work on the new system.
He's supposed to do a lot of things. What's your point?
What was the methodology? Liberals may vote as a bloc more often but just how are we deciding which justices are liberal and conservative? If there were just one justice who was considered conservative but often agreed with the liberal block, it would make it look like the conservatives are more divided, and liberals more resolute, when it is just that the swing vote is considered to be part of the conservative bloc. With 9 people it is hard to form a block, each vote is just too valuable (a 5-4 is very different from a 6-3).
ATI has a great reputation but AMD does too. However AMD has no negative reputation (ATI is thought to have poor production and overpriced)
If you are one of these 5.000 people with access to this service write a review and post. Nothing kills FUD more than an article showing that a service works exactly as advertised, with no magic or booby traps.
I have heard that the Egyptians did not like to write down bad news. I got this from the discovery channel, so it's only about as reliable as the Bible as info.
I agree, that is why I have a Wii and a PC. When I want to game, and not waste my life tuning settings, I play Wii. When I want the best graphics possible I use my PC. The Xbox and the PS3 both feel like PC's I'm not allowed to tune to my liking, and for that I would only buy them if they had some GREAT games for them, which eventually they will, but as you said, nothing is grabbing me now so I play Resident Evil 4 on the Wii and am more pleased with it than everything but God of War II.
If you can still legally access the content, is it censorship? It is not like every media outlet must run every piece of media available for it. If my local theater doesn't want to show something, oh well, if I can still access the media through another theater or on the web or on dvd etc, I can live with it.
Companies do that all the time and it is their right. Seeing as you are not forced buy anything, you got to let it slide.
I agree with you sentiment, but the console business model is built around the idea that they create the platform and nurture it, in exchange they get a cut of every game sold on it. I wish consoles were like DVD players and all you had to do was license the format and you can do whatever you want, but as is, Nintendo won't publish AO games and the ESRB decides what games are AO. There is no legal argument that either Nintendo or the ESRB need to do anything different. Oh well, it will still work for the PC, and I can use the Wiimote there too.
I know you're right but I can't shake the feeling I'm never going to get he game I was promised. Sorry for my hasty post.
We have a new contender for vaporware that may be able to challenge Duke Nuke'em Forever. Spore Forever!
I am simply going to give you credit for wit of the driest caliber. You Anonymous Coward
Funny how we keep using the word crazy in this argument, but how would we define it? Is crazy to mean that these are the people so close to the edge that a game tips them over? In which case how are we supposed to protect them? Especially considering that people that are just as close to the edge and it won't tip them over look pretty much the same. If by crazy we mean random then it doesn't matter what movies we put out, they just pick whatever suits their taste. Just one final note: censorship is not protection.
Statistically some of you will turn any situation into a gold mine and some of you will end up with shit no matter how you play it. My point was that for the second group, it's not a good plan to say "you should have done better".
How about we just float this idea: Video games are fake, and what you do inside of one is similar to what you do inside your head, no body's business but your own. Other people are real and you ARE responsible to what you do there. Is it really so hard to explain to people that most gamers don't even think about the violence in a game after a few hours. Once you understand the game mechanics all games are like solitaire: just because you see kings and queens in front of you, doesn't mean you are plotting regicide.